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July 11, 2008

On July 9, Novell released its openSuSE Build Service 1.0 version, providing developers with access to code repositories for the openSuSE Linux distribution and making it easier for developers to contribute their own code.

Novell's new version 1.0 marks the first major release of the service.

The new Build Service features a collaboration system for working on Linux packages or solution stacks, according to a statement from the project organizers. The new release can scale to much larger projects and expands the scope of Build Service for the entire OpenSuSE release.

With this service, Linux developers can build packages for many different distributions, including openSuSE, SuSE, Novell's Linux Enterprise, CentOS (4 and above), Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat and Ubuntu.

Upstream projects can build packages for new releases or multiple Linux distributions, and offer new releases of software for older Linux distributions.

Some of the new features in Build Service 1.0 include:

Streamlined search for finding a package's working copy

Notifications in submission-handling

Merges of changes can be made to a project

Stronger quality assurance

Improved branch handling

Better source handling

Adrian Schroter, project manager for openSuSE Build Service said "overall, this will make openSuSE development much more transparent, allow the community to more efficiently and rapidly contribute to the distribution and expand the number of users who are participating in our project."

Source: Novell.

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